On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:34 -0500, Rod Engelsman wrote:

> The best hope on the horizon is Evolution. Still not the equal to 
> Outlook, but close enough for most people. 

I think it has some fundamental aspect that are better than Outlook such
as storing mail in plain text.

> The glacial pace of 
> development is very disappointing though. I've been hearing about the 
> Windows port for over two years now and we're finally now at alpha/beta 
> with no installer.
> 
> What I don't understand is given the obvious desire of Sun, IBM, et al. 
> to unseat MS, and the level of demand for this product, that it takes so 
> terribly long to happen.

Whose budget and whose priority. Still, strategically it does seem that
until the big players can coordinate their efforts better progress will
be slow.

-- 
Ian Lynch
www.theINGOTs.org
www.opendocumentfellowship.org
www.schoolforge.org.uk


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